Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-06-10
RE WHAT THE WORLD SAYS :

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OF People Whom All Newspaper Readers
Are Supposed to Know.
The Duke of Sutherland recently bought
10000 acres of Florida land.
Two actresses are trying to get Anna Dick.
inson to write plays for them.
Sunset Cox's Turkish tale is to be published
either this month or next.
Sarah Bernhardt's latest pet is a tiger cat,
and the tiger cat is now fashionable beast.
Col Ingersol says he will deliver no more
anti-religious lectures His law practice takes
all his time.
Electrician Edison is regarded with such
awe by the negroes in Florida that it is diff
cult to get hands to take his apparatus from
the boats. -
Barley Campbel's most frequent delusion
is to fancy that he is Bonaparte or Grant
commanding vast army, or Shakespeare
or a Bulwer composing great play.
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins recently presented
. library consisting of $500 worth of books to
the town of Davis, W. Va, on condition that
the citizens should furnish the room, which
was promptly done.
Miss Marie Van Zandt, the well known
6luS6I, udS 81 ldT feCON6l6u 1IOu1 Lei SUIOh0
of paralysis as to be able to walk about with
the use of cane. Her complete restoration
is looked for soon.
zankoff the Russian paid Bulgarian trail
tor, was explicitly informed by the porte that
# refused to have further dealings with him
because of his bad faith, falsehoods and gen.
eral rascality.
An eccentric woman, Mrs. Lizzie 81. Mon
mouth, died recently at Canterbury, N. Fl.
She wrote pamphlet called Living on Half
d Dime Day." Her circumstances were
once prosperous. but when poverty came she
shut herself up in chamber. from the win
dow Of which she dropped rope, in order
that benevolent persons might attach aims
thereto.
Craig Tolliver, the Rowan county Ky.)
Desperate, has been in Cincinnati purchasing
dry goods to the amount of $4,000. He is
now deputy sheriff of the county he has ter
rorized, is peaceful and law abiding citizen
and has successful business. He never
drinks whisky, and has given up carrying a
revolver.
Princess Sarah Winnemucca is still success
~ running her school at Lovelock, New.
9te children are said to be apt scholars.
saol house is on the ranch of Chief
Ne the l'sst'laahoys are to be taught
soil. The moving spirit
N projects is the prin ~
eadily striving for the al
eople.
s s thus disposes of the horse
"A Rio Janeiro: Gan I'M
roman, Mime. Noirmont, at
Der of my company, insulted
me. M 4 saIoerward horsewhipped her for so
doin. that's all Of course; in fact, why
notg"s Mime. Bernhardt discovered she had
eight cousins in Chill. she says she hates
Chill, but is fond Of her cousins.
Professor Edward G.. Pickering, the di-
rector of the Harvard observatory and his
son, William q. Pickering an accomplished
specialist in starohotography, will have
charge Of the scheme to establish mountain
observatory under the Boyden bequest An
experimental station will first be planted on
some of the great heights in Colorado, where
an altitude Of Il, 900 feet can be reached, not
far from the railroads.
The mother Of Gen. Lew Wallace was
Esther Test, daughter of Judge John Test, of
Indiana. She was beautiful refined and
loving, with the serene manner and tranquil
spirit natural to one brought up in the society
of Friends. She lived but 26 years. and, lost
to her children before her beauty faded, left
in their minds fair image of perpetual
youth. In memory of that mother, the
gentle Esther, wife of Ben Hur, was named
Professor Ichisuke Fujioka, graduate of I'm
perial College of Engineers, Toxic, Japan,
and s. Yashirna have been in this country
since December last investigating electrical
appliances of all kinds, with view to
their introduction in Japan. They are at
pranuniR Philadelphia. Professor Fujioka,
speaks English fluently, says: "We
1--WE the incandescent system IN several 81
arl factories, but do not use the lights for
general Illuminating purposes. I expect to
go back in July, and will advocate the gen
eral introduction of electricity in all its
forms.